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Bird of Paradise · Beat 4 · permalink

Ship

1:24–1:44 Registered 1932

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 1 quote checked against the transcript; 5 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 1 of 3 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 1:281:28Frame at 1:321:32Frame at 1:391:39

Play from 1:24 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 2 · shots 7–9. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
ship (ship, exterior) evidence: frame:1, frame:2, frame:3
People
  • man in dark uniform with cap, standing at ship's wheel visible
  • man in dark uniform with cap, standing beside p1 visible
  • man in light shirt and cap, standing on deck holding a rope visible
  • man in dark shirt and cap, standing on deck visible
  • Johnny (named at t:1:25): unspecified, mentioned in dialogue mentioned
Seen happening
  • Two men in uniform stand on a ship's deck; one is at the wheel. [frame:1]
  • Two men stand on the deck of a sailboat, one holding a rope. [frame:2]
  • A sailboat is shown sailing on the water. [frame:3]
Seen
ship's wheel, sailboat, sails, rope
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense, urgent; themes: navigation, teamwork, imminent danger; style notes: black-and-white, medium shots on deck, wide shot of sailboat, high-contrast lighting

Two men in uniform are on a ship's deck; one is at the wheel. A sailboat is shown on the water. The transcript includes urgent dialogue about navigating a passage and a warning to someone named Johnny.

“Three and a half. God, shipper, how old's that shot? On by everybody. We're going through the passage. Find that jet sheet. Right there's a hat. Touch the swallow on the right or we'll ride it through. Here they come. Look out, Johnny.” 1:25 automatic transcript, may be wrong

The record

No renewal found An automated finding, not a verdict. A renewal would have appeared in the Copyright Office's renewal registrations 27 to 29 years after the term began. Those volumes are loaded and our parse of them found no matching renewal. If that is right, a work published 1931–1963 that was not renewed entered the public domain at the end of its 28th year; the volumes are OCR of old print, and the method page reports how often the parse has been found to miss one. Evidence dossier. The finding concerns the US copyright record for the film; it is not clearance for any use, and this page's annotation is machine output.

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Frame from Bird of Paradise (1932) at 1:28 (passage 1:24–1:44); US record: No renewal found

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